Definition of Disjunctive

1. Adjective. Serving or tending to divide or separate.


Definition of Disjunctive

1. a. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.

2. n. A disjunctive conjunction.

Definition of Disjunctive

1. Adjective. Not connected. Separated ¹

2. Adjective. Of a personal pronoun, not used in immediate conjunction with the verb of which the pronoun is the subject, examples: ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disjunctive

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Disjunctive

1. 1. Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining. 2. Pertaining to disjunct tetrachords. "Disjunctive notes." Disjunctive conjunction, one in which the major proposition is disjunctive; as, the earth moves in a circle or an ellipse; but in does not move in a circle, therefore it moves in an ellipse. Origin: L. Disjunctivus: cf. F. Disjonctif. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disjunctive

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disjoining
disjoins
disjoint
disjointed
disjointedly
disjointedness
disjointing
disjointly
disjointness
disjoints
disjunct
disjunction
disjunction mutant
disjunctions
disjunctive (current term)
disjunctive absorption
disjunctive conjunction
disjunctive normal form
disjunctively
disjunctiveness
disjunctives
disjunctivism
disjunctivist
disjunctivists
disjunctor
disjunctors
disjuncts
disjuncture
disjunctures

Literary usage of Disjunctive

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introductory Logic by James Edwin Creighton (1909)
"CHAPTER XI HYPOTHETICAL AND disjunctive ARGUMENTS § 40. The Hypothetical Syllogism. — We have hitherto been dealing with syllogisms composed entirely of ..."

2. Time and Space: A Metaphysical Essay by Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1865)
"For instance, Whales are neither mollusc, articulate, nor radiate, is a negative disjunctive proposition, which expresses alike the non-coalescence of the ..."

3. Logic by Christoph Sigwart (1895)
"general formula of the disjunctive syllogism, it is only a special instance of the ... All that the disjunctive judgment tells us is, in the first place, ..."

4. The Science of Logic: Or, an Analysis of the Laws of Thought by Asa Mahan (1857)
"THE disjunctive SYLLOGISM. A disjunctive syllogism is one whose major premise is a ... A disjunctive proposition or judgment has already been defined, ..."

5. The Problem of Logic by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein (1908)
"It should be noticed that the disjunctive Proposition as an integral element in the disjunctive Syllogism requires to be read from the point of view of mere ..."

6. A Manual of Logic by James Welton (1896)
"Mixed disjunctive Syllogisms. A Mixed disjunctive Syllogism, in the strict sense of the term, is one in which the inference is drawn from the disjunctive ..."

7. Elements of Logic: Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Henry Coppée (1860)
"disjunctive Syllogisms. A disjunctive syllogism is one, the major premiss of which is a disjunctive proposition (26), and the minor a categorical. ..."

8. An Outline of the Necessary Laws of Thought: A Treatise on Pure and Applied by William Thomson (1863)
"disjunctive Syllogisms. An argument in which there is a disjunctive ... A pure disjunctive argument (ie one in which no immediate inference has to be ..."

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